From the creators of Café Nordo, Seattle's most unique and beloved immersive theatrical experience, “Ghosts of Nebula” elevates the traditional Halloween event to spine-tingling new heights.

Webb has captured the haunting “Exposed Cranium” nebula—an otherworldly cloud shaped by a dying star that looks remarkably like a brain inside a skull.

The brightest stars embedded in nebulae throughout our galaxy pour out a torrent of radiation that eats into vast clouds of hydrogen gas – the raw material for building new stars. This etching process ...

A glowing hand stretches across the cosmos, with its palm and fingers sculpted from the wreckage of a massive stellar explosion. The eerie structure is part of the nebula MSH 15-52, powered by pulsar ...

Ghosts of Nebula: The Missing Six transports audiences to the Georgetown Steam Plant for a haunting exploration of a 1921 spiritualist expedition led by Explorer Alexandra Finch, along with her ...

The death of a star never looked so beautiful. New images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope reveal what looks eerily like a brain floating in space and housed inside a semitransparent skull.

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. February 20: The Coma Star Cluster shines Head out after moonset this evening to chase down planetary nebula NGC 3242 in ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Nebulae run the full gamut of a star's life, ...

The planetary nebula is located 3,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Draco. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking ...